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Week four of the Covid-19 shutdown: Carrie and I live off Arroyo Park Drive, maybe one-third of a mile west of Granary Square. We’ve been here since Newhall Land mushed

I’m gutted. I’m of course feeling down for the same reasons as most folks, and being in the news business, I feel immersed in every latest development with COVID-19. Working

The Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry’s mission statement has never been clearer than in the past several weeks as our nonprofit in the small building on Railroad Avenue in Newhall

While Americans are on lockdown, struggling to pay bills and buy food, progressives (AKA socialists) in Congress tried to sneak their radical agenda into life-saving legislation. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Georgia,

There’s been no knocks at the door from sheriff’s deputies consoling sobbing housewives. No friends or politicians injured from an exploding Whoopee Cushion. No familiar and inquiring faces from the

War, disasters and disease, riders of the Apocalypse, have throughout history caused tremendous suffering, but also prodded innovation and change. Past epidemics from the black plague to small pox and

Yep. I said it. It’s time for us to seriously consider suspending the minimum wage temporarily until our economy can get back on track. The minimum wage was strangling our

I have not had much time to write columns recently because I unchecked the retirement box and went back to being a CPA who had quite a hectic tax season. I

We’re in Groundhog Day – going on day 16 or 18 or was it 20? Days are blurred now in a Twilight Zone milieu of waiting, waiting, flipping the laptop

In the spirit of unity, I chose to use the medical term for our current pandemic. If I understand this week’s flavor of political correctness, it’s still open season on

Aesop’s ant and the grasshopper fable is on my mind as we enter week three of coronavirus shutdown.  Why weren’t we as a country more prepared? Why didn’t we have

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  I wasn’t nuts about the idea of my wife getting onto a plane just as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was ramping up in America. But at

I have a good friend who recently told me how he spent a month without using his phone or any social media. He said that, although the first few days

Truly, I tried mightily to get out of speaking at the recent SCV Latter-Day Saints Family Genealogy Fair. I’ve nothing against the dear Josephites. I was worried about the time

Many Disney films have a remarkable way of showcasing compelling themes wrapped in a witty package that appeals to both adults and children. They never get too complicated, but these

I don’t know how Carl Goldman did it. Locked in his cruise ship room, tied to a dock but unable to leave for 15 days. Fifteen days in a 270-square-foot

Most of us should be enjoying self-quarantine at this point.  Not that the coronavirus is everywhere, but by now few should be in line at Costco or at any store. 

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  So, I was late to the coronavirus party. Through the early stages of the Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020, I hadn’t worried all that

By David Hegg  At one point in my life I was an athlete. I was never the star of the team, but I played, added to the team effort, and